St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-17
CLARA BELLIES CHAT.
New York Bellies From Twelve to Sixteen
"A Notion That the Law Should
Regulate Them.
In Imitation Reading Madonna and a
Pair of Charitable Beauties in Peas
ant Costumes.
some Descriptions of the New Fabrics
That VIII Constitute the Coming
Seasons Garments.
4 Domestic Comedy eliminating
With An Almost Tragic Scene
In Theater.

to me- somehow, a week of poSerS. we
had just got through with Sarah Bernhardt,
with her wonderful succession OF attitudes
without corsets when Miss Eastlake came
to us with a still more audacious, though
less skillful, series OF poses in garment
which revealed every CULVER of her flesh,
from shoulders to hips. as plainly as If she
had been bare. This she did as the aw-
fully bad woman in ''Clito." 1t was at a
Lenten charity entertainment in the Metro
politan opera house, however, that L saw
pose which really shocked me. The per-
former was girl of probably sixteen, anu
nature had matured her rapidly, While her
parents had tried to keep her very juvenile
The outcome was curious creature, with
the loose, flowing hair of child, and
gown in some respects suited to tender
years, but it was as sleeveless as woman'S
at the opera. and low at the neck. This
plump little chit keenly relished the atten-
ton which was bestowed on her, and stood
conspicuously at the front of box, where
the whole house could view her. | trust
that | am not prudish, but l would like to
see law passed forbidding bare arms and
necks for girls under eighteen.
ALMOST AS STUDIED A POSER
was nv friend Emma when l called on her
Yesterday. She was suffering from an
acute attack of Lenten penitence; and
there she lay on lounge, perusing plous
book prescribed by her pastor. 1t was eX-
ceedngly pretty, and | threw up my hands
in admiration. She demurely and soberly
wished to know what was the matter
with me.
YOU'RE so pretty, lying that way"
| replied; quite as delectable as the orig
inal.'
What DO you mean?"
80, you can't fool me. You are posing
after the Reading Madonna
SO she was. Recall that famous picture,
compare it with my drawing. and see how
Emma had made her penitential exercises
beautiful by pose.
Here are two figures drawn on the spot
from
PAIR OF NEW YORK GIRLS.
= They were at a charity fair dressed in the
costumes of European peasants: and they
protested to me that they were never so
abashed in their lives. They really and
truly couldn't have borne the scrutiny if it
hadn't been for religious fortitude. But it
struck me that the penance of their sacri-
flee for charity's sake did not prevent them
from posing in the most conspicuous places
SOME OF THE NEW WOOLENS
in dress goods are ingenious in weaving
several shades together, with none predom-
mating. Two of the same color are fancied
in diagonal lines on a Speckled ground.
Large plaids of two or three colors are for
understands. two colors appearing promi-
nent with crossbarS Of red, olive or 0yellow.
The range of colors is excellent and fancy
fabrics are easily matched in plain goods
Cream woolens are striped with the ''arf'
colors, and have woven border along
side, which is the only trimming
needed. Other cream grounds are
crossed with hair-lines of the fashionable
colors, forming immense plaids. Cord
stripes have fine cord between each shade
of the popular striped cottonS. In the
lowered fabrics small designs of single
buds or leaves are preferred. A new yellow
appears prominently, with all of the fash
ionable shades of light and sapphire blue,
golden brown. Nile and pistache green,
heliotrope, deep red and ODD pink,
all ofrwhichfare duplicated in the Scotch
and French goods. Lightweight ben
galineS for summer wear are exceptionally
beautiful in colOringS and designs. They
come appropriately in light tints of gray,
beige. heliotrOpe. reseda, turquoise blue,
maize. salmon and Russian gray, and to
use in combination with each, if a com BIZ
ton is desired, is a corresponding goods,
with solid stripes about two inches wide.
Either the plain OF the striped can be EN-
ployed for the entire costume, and velvet OF
a darker shade of the ground tint or of a
contrasting color can be used in combina-
ton. The ever-favored sateens appear in
lovely evening tintS. with self-colored or
contrasting blossoms of hieroglyphic fig
ures. They can hardly be told from East
ern silks.
MIR. AND MRS. BROWN
were devoted pair up to two years ago,
when the usual disclosures were made by an
accident, and madame found that monsieur
was fumbugging her egregiously. An in
dependent and selfsustaihiDg spirit ami
mated the wife. She calmly struck the
tents, and left Brown to take up the bur-
den of his discovered life alone. During
all the unpleasantneSs of that epoch. a
woman. who with husband and three child
rem lived in the same building, was fore
most in sympathy and attention. and when
the separation took place was loudeSt in
approval of the wife's conduct. This
woman was so unattractlve, was in fact so
repulsive in various ways, and had been SO
often the butt of Nh Browns ridicues,
that she was the only female acquaintance
that Mrs. Brown acquitted of undue
knowledge of Browns widely disseminated
destinations. However. to the suburban
home where Mrs. Brown withdrew after
the domestic earthquake there came stories
after time of Browns appearance in pub.
lie with something so wild and unnatural
on his arm that Mrs. Brown was
heard 10 say: There's only one old her
~
of the woman described-MrS. Smith,
Although the pair became quite reckless
and were on exhibition several times to
gether this winter, it was not until Thu
evening that Mrs. Brown came upon he
derelict spouse and the truly awful frient
whose sympathetic bosom was always
offered as a resting place in the old troub-
IouS times. 1t was twenty-siX-nch bus
an which the afflicted wife put little conf
dence, and never trusted her weight of wot
TO such insufficient support, but all tn,
same she was justly indignant at sucl
hypocrisy and insulted by Browns want 0
taste. When the lady began to make in
1uiries the next day Of the Smith family
she learned that Mrs. Smith and MI Brow
had been going on terribly for year
The Smith home was broken up, as well a
the Brown family. Smith has begun lega
warfare on Brown for possession Of som,
children, and that part of the affair TIL,
courts will settle. Mrs. Brown seems cap
able of conducting her portion of the bust
ness successfully, and coming off victorious
as she did
AT THE THEATER
the other night. Brown escorted Mrs
Smith to a seat before the rise OF the cur
tain. The two chairs adjoining were va
cant. The lady leaned up against her es
cort in the yielding. affectionate style gen
orally attributed to the sick cat and the ho
brick. The play proceeded and this couple
endured its tedium rather better than tn